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Memorandum from W.F. Kelly, Chief Supervisor of Border Patrol, summarizing telephone conversations with Dr. Sweet, U.S. Public Health Service, and Mr. Paul Culbertson of the State Department

Memorandum from W.F. Kelly, Chief Supervisor of Border Patrol, summarizing telephone conversations with Dr. Sweet, U.S. Public Health Service, and Mr. Paul Culbertson of the State Department

56067/440
April 24, 1941
MEMOitAIffiUM OF TELEPHONE CONVERSATION WITH DR. SWEET, U.S. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE, ACTING IN CHARGE OF HOSPITAL DIVISION IN ABSENCE OF DR. SANDIDGE:
Advised Dr. Sweet of this Services plans for the detention at Fort Missoula, Montana, of from eight to fifteen hundred Italian seamen and of our plans to transfer five hundred within two weeks .
I requested that the Public Health Service detail Dopmyer, or an equally qualified sanitary engineer, to Fort Missoula for the purpose of surveying the sanitary facilities and helping with the drawing of specifications for such additional facilities as will be necessitated by the expansion of the camp. Dr. Sweet stated that he would make inquiries as to the availability of a sanitary engineer to be loaned to us for this purpose and advise me.
I advised him that Mr. Uhl had requested the Medical Officer in Charge at Ellis Island to take steps toward the immediate vaccination against Rocky Mountain fever of the crewmen to be moved to Fort Missoula in the first party, and asked Dr. Sweet to expedite this. He stated that he would.
I also discussed with him the problem of caring for the health of these seamen at Fort Missoula, and described the hospital facilities there to him. In accordance with an earlier discussion on the subject with Mr. Dimock I told Dr. Sweet that it was the view of this Service that the maintenance and operation of the hospital at Fort Missoula should be accepted by the U. S. Public Health Service as its responsibility, that being a Federal health problem and one of an unusual nature as far as the Immigration Service is concerned is one that should bo taken over by the U.S.P.H.S., and that the U.S.P.U.S. should be willing to take it3 share of the Governments burden during this emergency. Dr. Sweet stated that the Public Health Service has no appropriation which would enable them to operate this hospital, but I told him that neither does this Service; further, that it would be as simple a matter for the Public Health Service to secure funds for that purpose as it would for this Service to do so. I informed Dr. Sweet that we intend to present the matter to the Surgeon General formally, but requested that they study the matter in order that we may have an informal discussion regarding the details of the project prior to submitting a formal request.
April 25, 1941
This morning, I called Mr. Paul Culbertson of the State Department and advised him that Mr. Uhl had reported that the Italian Consulate

Memorandum from W.F. Kelly, Chief Supervisor of Border Patrol, summarizing telephone conversations with Dr. Sweet, U.S. Public Health Service, and Mr. Paul Culbertson of the State Department

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56067/440
April 24, 1941
MEMOitAIffiUM OF TELEPHONE CONVERSATION WITH DR. SWEET, U.S. PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE, ACTING IN CHARGE OF HOSPITAL DIVISION IN ABSENCE OF DR. SANDIDGE:
Advised Dr. Sweet of this Services plans for the detention at Fort Missoula, Montana, of from eight to fifteen hundred Italian seamen and of our plans to transfer five hundred within two weeks .
I requested that the Public Health Service detail Dopmyer, or an equally qualified sanitary engineer, to Fort Missoula for the purpose of surveying the sanitary facilities and helping with the drawing of specifications for such additional facilities as will be necessitated by the expansion of the camp. Dr. Sweet stated that he would make inquiries as to the availability of a sanitary engineer to be loaned to us for this purpose and advise me.
I advised him that Mr. Uhl had requested the Medical Officer in Charge at Ellis Island to take steps toward the immediate vaccination against Rocky Mountain fever of the crewmen to be moved to Fort Missoula in the first party, and asked Dr. Sweet to expedite this. He stated that he would.
I also discussed with him the problem of caring for the health of these seamen at Fort Missoula, and described the hospital facilities there to him. In accordance with an earlier discussion on the subject with Mr. Dimock I told Dr. Sweet that it was the view of this Service that the maintenance and operation of the hospital at Fort Missoula should be accepted by the U. S. Public Health Service as its responsibility, that being a Federal health problem and one of an unusual nature as far as the Immigration Service is concerned is one that should bo taken over by the U.S.P.H.S., and that the U.S.P.U.S. should be willing to take it3 share of the Governments burden during this emergency. Dr. Sweet stated that the Public Health Service has no appropriation which would enable them to operate this hospital, but I told him that neither does this Service; further, that it would be as simple a matter for the Public Health Service to secure funds for that purpose as it would for this Service to do so. I informed Dr. Sweet that we intend to present the matter to the Surgeon General formally, but requested that they study the matter in order that we may have an informal discussion regarding the details of the project prior to submitting a formal request.
April 25, 1941
This morning, I called Mr. Paul Culbertson of the State Department and advised him that Mr. Uhl had reported that the Italian Consulate

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